The Curious Child's Encyclopedia: 101 Why Questions Kids Actually Ask (Curious Kids)

Imagine handing your child a book that answers the questions they actually ask — and watching them lean over to read the page even when they think it's bedtime.
FULL-COLOR illustrated format with four-part answers, hands-on activities, and a trail of curiosity that leads from question to question across eight chapters.

Designed for ages 6–10. Adored by curious kids, science lovers, and any adult who has ever fumbled through an answer and wished they actually knew.


What Makes This Book Different
101 Questions Kids Actually Ask: From why the sky is blue to why poop smells — every question was chosen because real children ask it. Not because it fits a curriculum. Not because it rounds out a chapter. Because kids genuinely want to know.

Four Answers Per Question — Not One: Every entry gives you a Quick Answer for the impatient, a Let's Go Deeper section for the curious, a Try It Yourself activity you can do at home right now, and an Ask This Next prompt that leads to the next fascinating question.

The Gross Questions Are In Here Too: Why do farts make a sound? Why is snot green when you're sick? Why do some animals eat their own poop? Science doesn't skip the gross stuff and neither do we. Wild card questions — marked with a lightning bolt — will surprise even adults.

Depth Over Volume: Other books answer 1,000 questions with a sentence each. This one answers 101 questions properly — with science that goes somewhere, activities that work, and answers that make you look up from the page.

Built for Reading Together or Alone: Short enough for a child to read independently. Rich enough for a parent to learn something new. The Ask This Next trail turns a single bedtime question into a twenty-minute adventure across chapters.

What's Inside
101 Questions across 8 chapters — Sky & Space, Animals, Human Body, Nature & Earth, Everyday Science, Food & Taste, People & How We Work, and Big Questions

Full-color illustrated page per question — bold flat vector artwork in jewel tones with a character reacting to the science on every page

Four-part answer format on every page — Quick Answer, Let's Go Deeper, Try It Yourself, Ask This Next

Wild card and gross factor questions flagged throughout — the questions that make dinner tables go quiet

The "Ask This Next" trail — follow the thread from question to question across chapters for as long as your curiosity holds out

A closing chapter of Big Questions that science hasn't fully answered yet — because honest uncertainty is more interesting than false confidence

Scroll up and add it to your cart — and give your child a book that treats their questions as the serious, fascinating, occasionally disgusting things they are.

Mum of two homeschooled kids. Passionate about creating engaging books that encourage curiosity and joyful learning and inspire young readers to explore, learn, and grow with creativity and confidence.